Charles R. Garry (Jonestown)
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- KQED (San Francisco, California)
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- 3188a color, sound, mag stripe, about 400 feet 1. All of the footage is somewhat jumbled, with interrupted sentences, etc. of reporters; Garry comes in and says that personally, hes just sick about what happened. Hed never seen anything like it and he hopes that no one else ever has to see such a thing. went to Jonestown to prepare legal matters and interview witnesses. told Jones to let people see him. wanted to know why they couldnt get in, and he said they like their privacy. told the guards to let people (Ryan? Speier?) in. there was a dormitory of 40 senior citizens. They wanted to leave. said to Jones that even if 400 people wanted to leave, what Jones had done would still be a beautiful representation, because Jones was still doing (good) things there. responded that the children stay with him. Speiers said to Garry that he couldnt leave, he had to straighten things out. Lane and Garry went back into the pavilion and said to a man that he could leave but that his children would have to stay in Jonestown in care of the mothers custody until the court determines who has custody. The man said that if he couldnt go, hed stay and be harrassed. was talking to Garry and Mark Lane and thanking them for making it possible to have all the exposure to the Jonestown Project. Garry was shaking hands and getting ready to leave. Ryan was going to stay until the next day, because there wasnt room enough for everyone to leave. big man came from behind Ryantwo big men. Garry remembered the name later as Donald Sly (?). He grabbed Ryan and called him a motherf.... He grabbed Ryan by the throat. Garry grabbed the man by the throat. He choked him until his face turned blue, but the man was holding on. Mark Lane and a few Temple members took a knife away from the man. Ryan got up from the ground and had blood on him, but he wasnt hurt. The blood was from the man who had the knife. He cut his hand. didnt see people upset. They were sad. He couldnt understand the people coming in (to the room?) and their actions. All the people hed ever talked to had loved being in Jonestown. They would be kidding and saying nice things. never seen guns there before, and hed been there four times, but all of a sudden he saw eight guns. He grabbed his briefcase and Mark Lane grabbed his baggage, and they spent the next 26 hours in the jungle. just kept saying mother. 2.?Garry invited some Peoples Temple members in San Francisco to come to this interview, but they were in shock and didnt come. They didnt know what had happened until he told them. They were in a state of shock. They didnt know what to say.or think. Temple members in San Francisco are dedicated to socialism and a better way of life, so this was a complete shock to them. Brown, Peoples Temple, also spoke. She said that Jones was very sensitive. He saw that our standard of living was based on us raping the wealth of the rest of the world. questioned Garry, asking if he now owned the church assets (he said he didnt think so) or important papers (no.) members commented. Temple members? said that they took care of people. color, sound, mag stripe, 1. Garry press conference 150+ feet said that the whole thing was a horrible experience when you see several hundred people you know and care about and see it destroyed in a matter of minutes. He said the Jonestown program was a beautiful program, so what happened didnt make any sense. finally consented to have all media there except one reporter from the Enquirer. said that Jones had been ill, paranoid and on medication for the last year. ??"He just lost his lease?"...a terribly, terribly emotionally sick person." Lane asked if there wasnt anything better than dying, and Jones replied that "theres nothing better than to die for the revolutionary suicide as an expression of protest." Lane said if Jones decided to commit suicide, Charles (Garry?) and he would write Jones story. turned to leave. Jones hugged Lane and Garry? Lane asked how to get out. Brown also spokea Temple member. She didnt condone violence, but Jim Jones stood for economic and social and racial justice for 30 years. was audience interaction with a Temple member? Garry didnt know what was in Guyana. He said hed go back. 2. Questions to Garryno Garry, just questioners110.2 feet A woman asked him when Garry and Mark Lane saw a crisis, why didnt he try to get the women and children out? man asked why did Garry go back to Jonestown instead of leaving with those trying to get out, assuming Jones had a suicide plan again: why was Garry so uncooperative and rude to those trying to get information about relatives, etc. woman asked: How do you feel knowing youve had a major part in stalling the custody case of John Victor Stone (?) woman asked:?How do you feel about Jones now long did you look into Peoples Temple before you decided to take the case? How much have you been paid by the Peoples Temple Isnt it true that you made arrangements to accept the title to Peoples Temple in repayment of services? Where do you go from here?
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Content creator: KQED
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KQED
Identifier: KQN3188_14476;14476 (KQED AAP)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy
Duration: 00:11:00?
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- Chicago: “Charles R. Garry (Jonestown),” KQED, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 4, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-55-289gjnf7.
- MLA: “Charles R. Garry (Jonestown).” KQED, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 4, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-55-289gjnf7>.
- APA: Charles R. Garry (Jonestown). Boston, MA: KQED, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-55-289gjnf7